WEEKLY DISPATCH

Canada is behind its global peers when it comes to fostering innovation. Investments in the 2017 budget are a start but, as Mai Nguyen writes, initiatives from Finland to Israel could serve as models, too.

After a year of brutal trends in the country, a plebiscite this weekend will decide whether President Erdoğan will gain even more power. Is he the master of ballot-box authoritarianism? By Caleb Lauer.

Instead of giving its “full support” to last week’s U.S. military strikes on Syria, Canada should be working harder than ever to ensure that the new U.S. administration works within the limits of international law, argues Maria Banda.

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In London, writes Sarah Lyall for this beautiful feature in The New York Times, "the thought is that being connected to the rest of the world is something to celebrate." But what happens to this global metropolis, whose soul is made up of so many different cultures and identities, when that idea is put into question — as it has been with the start of Brexit negotiations? Photos by Sergey Ponomarev.

Following the test-firing of a ballistic missile by North Korea ahead of Donald Trump's visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, an influential state-run Chinese newspaper warned this week that the Korean peninsula is the closest it has been to a "military clash" since 2006. Steve Mollman lays out what the next Korean conflict might look like, for Quartz.